Most businesses hire graphic designers for many reasons. I have provided a list of businesses that hire graphic designers, and I describe what the work is like in those businesses.
1) Magazines always need graphic designers
Magazines of all types, shapes and sizes are published each year in the United States and around the world. Thousands of magazines are published in a single year on a variety of subjects. The quality and design of magazines ranges widely. As a graphic designer, you can find all kinds of design work in the magazine world. Magazines look for graphic designers at all levels of expertise. The work is intense and constant. Magazines require many different creative talents and designers to keep up with their frequency. Thist means it is possible to break into the publishing world with relative ease if you re persistent and talented.
The hierarchy of the magazine world begins at the top with an art director or design director. This person oversees the design departments and the overall design of the magazine. Next on the hierarchy are the junior and senior art directors. These designers are responsible for assigning illustrations, typography, and photography projects. The senior and junior designers are also responsible for creating separate components of the magazine. This can include inserts, features and columns. Junior design positions are often entry level. Other entry level jobs include unpaid interns and paid assistants. These positions usually require less critical yet still important support work. The most common tasks associated with these positions include helping in production, including scanning images, basic layout and design, and working on tightly formatted pages.
2) The newspaper industry continues to beckon new graphic designers
Although you may often hear how new digital media is swallowing up newspapers, you can still find steady work in the newspaper industry. Newspapers still need art directors, designers and graphic editors. With more ad space and less editorial content, it is somewhat ironic that newspaper demand graphic designers much more than in recent years. In past years, newspapers have created a new graphic design position. This is the graphics editor, a combination between editor and designer who is responsible for most of the information type graphics. This can include graphs, charts and maps that you commonly see in newspapers.
3) Working in corporate design
Corporations are one of the great patrons of graphic design. Corporations include working with one of the world s biggest ad agencies, or other impressive corporations such as IBM, Apple, insurance companies, music labels, and so on. The corporate environment can offer you some of the most invaluable experiences of your career as a graphic designer. Although you will be working within very conservative constraints, you will also gain some of the biggest credentials of your career. In house art departments don t do a lot of corporate work; it is more likely a specialized design firm will commission you. The biggest type of project available is a corporate logo.
4) Making it in the big world of advertising
There is perhaps no bigger means of making money in the world of graphic design than working in advertising. Advertising is a giant mass communications industry. Television and radio command the biggest budgets and distribute their messages to most people. Other forms of advertising, including publications, brochures, flyers, billboards, and direct mail, provide a lot of work for graphic designers.
Author Resource:
Visit Brian Scott's website, http://www.FastCashDesign.com and learn about freelance graphic design. For graphic design jobs, visit http://www.GraphicDesignFreelanceJobs.com
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